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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Implementing risk response plans - tracking identified risks - monitoring residual risks - identifying new risks and evaluating risk process throughout the project






2. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






3. Specific version of the schedule model used to compare actual results to the plan to determine if preventive or corrective action is needed to meet the project objectives






4. One of the defining points of a schedule network; a junction point joined to some or all of the other dependency lines






5. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






6. Any item - internal or external - that is required by a process before that process proceeds






7. Uncertain event or condition that has a positive or negative effect on projects objectives






8. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






9. Describes each component in the work breakdown structure (WBS). for each WBS component - the WBS dictionary includes a brief definition of the scope of statement of work - defined deliverables - a list of associated activities and list of milestones.






10. A collection of formal documented procedures that define how project deliverables and documentation will be controlled - changed and approved. in most application areas - the change control system is a subset of the configuration management system






11. Budgeted cost of work performed






12. The process of completing each project procurement






13. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






14. Processes to purchase or acquire the products - services or results needed from outside the project team to perform the work






15. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






16. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






17. The statue - quality or sense of being restricted to a given course of action or inaction. an applicable restriction or limitation - either internal or external to a project - which will affect the performance of the project or a process.






18. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






19. Developing a detailed description of the project and product






20. Model used in conjunction with manual methods or project management software to perform schedule network analysis to generate the project schedule for use in managing the executing or a project






21. Provider of products - services or results






22. Processes that organize and manage the project team






23. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






24. Technique for estimating that applies a weighted average of optimistic - pessimistic and most likely estimates when there is uncertainty with the individual activity estimates






25. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






26. The time in calendar units between the actual start date of the schedule activity and either the data date of the project schedule if the schedule activity is in progress or the actual finish date if the schedule activity is complete






27. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






28. Document that establishes criteria and activities for developing and controlling the project schedule






29. Identifying early and late start dates as well as early and late finish dates for the uncompleted portions of project schedule activities






30. Document that describes how procurement processes from developing procurement documentation through contract closure will be managed






31. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity at that summary level. same as summary activity.






32. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






33. Approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources






34. Narrative description of products - services or results






35. Analysis. a statistical technique that calculates the average outcome when the future includes scenarios that may or may not happen. used in decision tree analysis.






36. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






37. Schedule network diagramming technique in which schedule activities are represented by boxes or nodes. schedule activities are graphically linked by one or more logical relationships to show the sequence in which the activities are performed






38. The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed on a project or a work breakdown structure component or a schedule activity. the total planned value for the project






39. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






40. Analytical procedure in which each potential failure mode in every component of a product is analyzed to determine its effect on the reliability of that component and - by itself or in combination with other possible failure modes - on the reliabilit






41. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






42. Tracking - reviewing - regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan






43. Person or group that provides financial resources in cash or in kind for the project






44. The smallest unit of time used in scheduling a project. calendar units are generally in hours - days - or weeks - but can also be in quarters years - months - shifts - or even minutes






45. Describes when and how human resource requirements will be met






46. Collection of logically related project activities - usually culminating in the completion of a major deliverable. project phase is a component of the project life cycle






47. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






48. Summary level schedule that identifies the major schedule milestone






49. Risk response planning technique that indicates the project team has decided not to change the project management plan to deal with a risk - or is unable to identify any other suitable response strategy






50. Approved specific version of the detailed scope statement - work breakdown structure (WBS) and its associated WBS dictionary